Game Releases · 2002

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1 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: playstation3 developer: cranky-pants-games

PlayStation 3 2002

Sony · 2006–2017 · 3,209 games all-time on RAWG

Note: these 2002 titles predate the hardware — RAWG lists later ports and re-releases under the original release date.

PS3 is a home gaming console released by Sony in 2006. There are three models of a system: original (also called "fat"), slim and super slim. They vary in weight, body materials, and Blu-ray drives. PS3 is the original successor of PS2 and predecessor of PS4. The system uses Dualshock 3 as gamepads.

More on PlayStation 3

Compared to its main competitor — Xbox 360, PS3 is often seen as more exclusive-oriented platform considering many unique IPs originating on it: The Last of Us, Uncharted and Resistance to say the least. The platform is first to feature Trophies system: an analog to Xbox'es Achievements but divided into categories: bronze, silver, gold, and platinum. Later on, for a game to pass the Sony authentification committee, the game must have had trophies. After PS Vita release there is also a Remote Play feature available allowing the player to broadcast the image to a remote Vita via the internet.

Releases in 2002
1
Release window
14 Oct 2002 → 14 Oct 2002
Busiest month
October 2002 1
Avg user rating
3.44of 5, 1 ranked
Top Metacritic
Red Faction II 64
Best known on PlayStation 3 (all-time, not 2002)

Why some games have no rating

RAWG publishes an average score only once a game has collected 6 or more user votes. Below that it returns 0.0 — while still returning the full vote breakdown. So a game nobody has ever rated and a game with five “exceptional” votes arrive looking identical.

Those suppressed scores are recomputed from the breakdown, which recovers 0 of the 1 games here that would otherwise read as unrated. The rest have no votes at all — mostly obscure, regional or unported titles. That is a real absence, not a gap in the fetch: there is nothing to retrieve.

Everything with a vote ranks in one table, because the order is weighted rather than a raw mean: a score is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 (too few ranked games here to take a local one) in proportion to how thin its evidence is, so a two-vote 5.0 settles near the middle instead of on top. Metacritic joins at half that weight where it exists — 1 of these games have one.

1 ranked (6+ votes) 0 provisional (1–5 votes) 0 never rated 172 votes counted 3.44 mean of ranked
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Ranked 1 game with at least one vote

Ordered by a weighted score, not the raw mean: each game's own average is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 in proportion to how few votes it rests on, and Metacritic is folded in at half that weight where it exists. A 6-vote 4.67 therefore ranks below a 2,100-vote 4.45 — the raw figure is shown under each score, and sorting by raw score ignores the weighting entirely.

Bars show how the votes split — Exceptional, Recommended, Meh, Skip. A ~ on the raw figure marks a score recomputed from a breakdown RAWG suppresses.

1 Red Faction II 14 Oct 2002 · THQ Nordic, Volition, Outrage Games, Cranky Pants Games · PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, GameCube 3.51 3.44 raw 172 MC 64